A complete list of interesting, unusual, romantic, secret and popular places that are located near Olimpiyskaya station
Solomensky Landscape Park (Solomensky Forest Park) was founded in 1986 and has an area of 30 hectares. Most of the park’s territory is located within the Kuchmin Yar tract – a natural basin at the bottom of which the Mokraya River flows. When creating the park, significant earthworks were carried out – the slopes were … Read more
Kiev Planetarium is the oldest (founded in January 1952) and largest planetarium in Ukraine. In terms of dome size, it ranks second in Europe with a screen area of 830 square meters. More than 150,000 people visit the Kiev Planetarium every year. Today, the capital’s planetarium has turned into a unique scientific, educational, cultural and … Read more
In 1899, the Kiev Literacy Society approached the City Duma with an initiative to build a people’s house (a publicly accessible cultural and educational institution). The mayor took up the proposal and by the end of the year a resolution was issued on the free allocation of land next to the Trinity Church. Provincial architect … Read more
Tightly closed iron doors 10 centimeters thick that lead to the basement, equipment abandoned to the mercy of fate, personal and work belongings and medicines – this was the picture in an abandoned laboratory until 2015 and which was a branch of the Gromashevsky Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases (was founded in 1896 with … Read more
This historical area extends on the eastern slope of Batu Mountain along the street and descent of the same name (the descent in 2003 was named after Nikolai Amosov), which in Soviet times was called Stepan Razin Street and Descent. On the street, traffic was one-way up, and downhill, one-way down. Protasov Yar Street also … Read more
Nicholas Church is a Roman Catholic church of St. Nicholas in Kyiv, used since 1980 as the House of Organ and Chamber Music. Construction of the Church of St. Nicholas began according to a competition design by architect S. Valovsky in 1899. The design of the building was carried out under the leadership of the … Read more